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Re: this is not the man................................ i knew for 20 years
^^ I grasp that, and I'm telling you I remember the event to which the Newsweek article refers and notwithstanding Newsweek's insinuation that there are "shenanigans" going on, I don't remember there being anything nefarious about it, nor was it even a big deal at the time (i.e., there was not a lot of pushback from the entity requesting the data when they declined to produce it). If it's what I'm thinking of, they are taking a non-event and trying to spin something out of it after the fact.
As someone who has done some fundraising myself, I can tell you that incomplete or inaccurate donor data can come with the territory, and when you're dealing with smaller amounts that don't have the more stringent documentation requirements, it's pretty common that you wouldn't find out that the info you have is imperfect until it's too late to do anything about it. With that said, though, I can tell you that of all the campaigns I've worked on, the Obama campaign is the most stringent about playing by the rules -- that's not to say that other campaigns run fast and loose with them, but they are hypersensitive to any suggestion that they've gamed the system or skirted the rules and tend to err on the side of being overly cautious -- the thought process is that they are raising money at such an absurd pace, it doesn't make sense to put the campaign on the defensive over something like fundraising.
^^ I grasp that, and I'm telling you I remember the event to which the Newsweek article refers and notwithstanding Newsweek's insinuation that there are "shenanigans" going on, I don't remember there being anything nefarious about it, nor was it even a big deal at the time (i.e., there was not a lot of pushback from the entity requesting the data when they declined to produce it). If it's what I'm thinking of, they are taking a non-event and trying to spin something out of it after the fact.
As someone who has done some fundraising myself, I can tell you that incomplete or inaccurate donor data can come with the territory, and when you're dealing with smaller amounts that don't have the more stringent documentation requirements, it's pretty common that you wouldn't find out that the info you have is imperfect until it's too late to do anything about it. With that said, though, I can tell you that of all the campaigns I've worked on, the Obama campaign is the most stringent about playing by the rules -- that's not to say that other campaigns run fast and loose with them, but they are hypersensitive to any suggestion that they've gamed the system or skirted the rules and tend to err on the side of being overly cautious -- the thought process is that they are raising money at such an absurd pace, it doesn't make sense to put the campaign on the defensive over something like fundraising.
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